St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-10

expected. Lingg was enabled to make
his bombs, Spies has inflated his self i'm
portance to an inOrdinate degree, Par
SONS has written and published enough
to stock young library. and all con-
cerned have glorified themselves and
their cause until they came to regard
themselves and be regarded by others
as fiTst-class heroes in pretty bad box.
All this is ended, and now that these
men can no longer receive visitors, will
no longer be open to public gaze, will
no longer have that food of flattery for
which their self conceit and flatulent
vanity clammored, expect to find a
pronounced and decided change in their
demeanOr. To be sure, if the governor
does not interfere-and it is not likely
he will-there is but brief opportunity
for them to change very much, but be-
lieYe they will
Utilize Every Hour of 1t.
That their friends already entertain
this view is evident, / think, from the
proceedings taken in the county court
to-day in the interests of Lingg and
Spies, a writ of inquisition being asked,
with the cheeky supposition that the
hearing be put down for a week from
to-day. This, in view of the near ap-
proach of Friday, which is the day of
execution, mildly indicates the despera-
ton of these men and their counsel.
States Attorney Grinnell made short
work of the matter. He characterized
it as another of Solomon's tricks" de-
MED the right of the county court to in
terfere at any time, and showed the. I'M
pertinence of an attempt to induce a
tritiing with the right of the state in so
significant a moment as this. This court
sustained Mr.. Grinnell's ideas, and de-
clined to entertain a further proposition
made by the counsel for the prisoners,
on basis of a probable refusal by the
criminal court to listen to the PROPOSE
ton, asking if in case the criminal court
declined to interfere, this court would
listen to an argument. The judge de-
clined to consider the proposition at all,
saying that it was premature, that he
could not tell what the other court
might do, and
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for him to argue from unknown prem
ises, whereupon the attorney indi-
Gated his determination to go to the SUI
periOr court before Judge Gary, who, it
will be remembered, was the trial judge.
A heavy fall of rain has not only soaked
the streets of Chicago, but dampened
the ardOr of the curiosity mOngers and
the anarchistic sympathizers, who, in
other days, have flocked in scores and
hundreds to the Jail, cOntented to stand
and look at its walls of stone and specu-
late as to the mission of the various
people who went i'll or came out. 1t is
interesting to hear the condemned men
talk, of course, not because of any i'm
portance conceded in their phrasings,
but because, standing on the brink, they
are the prominent figures in the worlds
panorama to-day. 1t is also interesting
to hear what their sympathizers say, ,and
it is peculiarly noteworthy, l think, to
mark the dividing line. They in Jail
insist that as they did not throw the
bomb they are not murdererS; that not
being guilty they, or at least a majority
of them, cannot ask for pardon or sue
for mercy, and that. therefore, they be-
come martyS; while their friends among
the people on the outside argue that if
those men are hanged the cause of an
archy will be immensely benefited, and
that, therefore, it is folly for the state
to carry out its intention. Now, as
matter of fact, it has been fully estab-
lished by proof that all of these con-
demned men were
Engaged in a Conspiracy
to effect a social revelation by means of
murder. All their acts as parties to that
conspiracy proved murderOus intent.
Some of them prepared dynamite bombs,
others gave instruction in the manu-
facture of those 'murderOuS missiles,
others by speech and in writing en-
cOuraged, recommended, and urged
their use for the commission of murder.
They counseled striking wOrkmen to
murder the men who refused to employ
them; they eXhorted mob of ruffians
to murder certain policemen who were
dispensing them; they called the same
ruffians Ito arms" to ''avenge their
comrades" whom the said policemen
had dispersed while in the act of de-
strOying property and attacking peace
able wOrkmen with deadly missiles. In
the gathering thus called for the pur-
pose of revenge, the murderous work
they advised, cOunseled and urged was
perpetrated with weapons prepared for
that purpose by them and according to
their instructions. Their responsibility
for the crime so conceived, cOntrived
and committed would not have been
more complete if each one of them had
personally assisted in lighting the fuse
and casting the implement of death. In
favor of murder committed, in this man
ner by persons who call themselves
anarchists, the governor is
Asked to Discriminate
by committing the sentence of death to
life in prison. The discrimination asked
for cannot be limited to the malefactors
now under sentence. To grantit in this
case would be to assure the evangelists
of the anarchy method Of murder that
they could expect from executive clem-
ency a like favor in all future cases.
1t would be precedent giving them to
understand that murdererS who call
themselves anarchists, and dispatch
their victims guardians of public safety
they will mostly be until the social
revolution has gained a strong fOoting)
with anarchist weapons in the anarchist
fashion, are not to be eXterminated as
other murderers. but are to live lin order
that the anarchist cause may not die) in
a prison until their cOparceners in the
deadly foreign crime that has been i'm
ported with pernicious foreigners into
this land shall get them out. 1t is a
mistake to think the anarchist senti-
ment is confined to the fellows now so
near their ropes end.
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